U.S.
Wants Smuggler Suspects Extradited BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. and Canadian
authorities say they've shut down a lucrative human-smuggling operation with the
arrest of two Canadians believed to have sold passage to the United States to
more than 100 people over the past 16 months.

Canada:
Police had rape suspect, then let him go Montreal
police say they interviewed and released a suspected serial rapist about one week
before they arrested him  and before the last assault he's charged with
committing. Roberto Manuel Belnavis is facing a total of seven charges
in connection with the assaults: four counts of armed sexual assault, two counts
of sexual assault causing bodily harm, one count of armed robbery. At least four
women between the ages of 16 and 25 were attacked in July.

British
Columbia: Tribe halts killer whale rescueAttempts
to rescue a lost whale in Canada are causing conflict between biologists and a
small Indian tribe who say the whale is the returned spirit of a former chief.
They tell the story of their chief who on his deathbed three years ago promised
to return as a whale. - (NNN
Aboriginal)

Canada
Activists Back U.S. War Resisters Toronto -- Two U.S. soldiers fighting
for refugee status in Canada should be applauded for their actions and allowed
to stay in the country, the organizers of a support campaign said.

Canadian
Naji Antoine Abi Khalil Charged in Terrorism Aid AttemptThe chairman
of a Canadian shipping company was charged with attempting to aid terrorists by
sending night-vision goggles and other equipment to the Hezbollah, U.S. officials
said Tuesday. Naji Antoine Abi Khalil, 39, of Montreal, who holds dual
citizenship in Lebanon and Canada, was charged Monday night and ordered detained
by a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said.

Toronto's
most wanted nabbed in Jamaica - Story
in the National PostThe
man who has topped Toronto's most wanted list has been arrested in Jamaica.
Dudley Forbes on two counts of first-degree murder for the slayings of Donovan
Samuda and Howard Ryan Deacon. Forbes also faces four counts
of attempted murder in connection with the shooting deaths, which occurred at
a north-end nightclub. And he faces an attempted murder charge from 1993, when
police allege he stabbed his ex-girlfriend 13
times. - (Rick
Dean)

Canada's
Harper Says He Would Not Send Troops to IraqCanadian opposition leader
Stephen Harper said Sunday that he would not send troops to Iraq if he
is elected prime minister.Canada, which has troops serving in Afghanistan, Bosnia,
and Haiti, opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and said again last month it
would not send troops to the country.

http://www.invadecanada.us
- Why invade Canada?"Why invade
Canada? - (excerpt) Canada Has Stuff!First off, let's make Alaska actually
connected to the U.S. again! Those Alaskan folks are always getting screwed by
not being part of the "continental 48 states". Let's give them a nice
little bridge downstairs. A little bit of farmland never hurt anything either,
but forget the permafrost part. Canada is the second largest country in the world,
let's fix that..."